세계의 끝과 하드보일드 원더랜드 1

世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド #1

by Haruki Murakami, 무라카미 하루키, 김난주 (Translator)

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『세계의 끝과 하드보일드 원더랜드』
출간 35주년 기념 완전판 출간

하루키 월드의 시작을 세계에 알렸던 작품, 하루키의 네 번째 장편 소설 『세계의 끝과 하드보일드 원더랜드』가 출간 35주년을 기념하여 새로운 디자인으로 선보인다. 스타일리시하며 냉소적인 세계, ‘하드보일드 원더랜드’와 환상적이고 서정적인 ‘세계의 끝’이라는 판이한 두 무대가 서로 대비되고 때로는 호응하며 평행으로 이어지다가 도저히 상상하지 못할 전개를 펼쳐 보인 이 작품은 일본뿐 아니라 전 세계 독자들을 사로잡아 제21회 다니자키 준이치로 상을 수상하며 일본 내에서도 162만 부 이상이 판매되었고 1980년대의 기념비적 작품이 되었다.

SF와 하드보일드 등 여러 장르가 뒤섞여 있으나 무엇으로도 규정할 수 없는 이 소설은 그야말로 하루키 장르, 즉 하루키 월드의 포문을 열었다. 이번에 민음사에서 출간되는 판본은 하루키 전집 출간 과정에서 작가의 개고를 거친 새 판본으로, 번역가 김난주가 새로이 번역한 완전판이다. 또한 이번 출간을 기념하여 한국 독자들에게 전하는 하루키의 특별 서문이 담겼다. 작품을 재해석한 세련된 디자인의 이번 단행본은 소장하는 것만으로도 큰 가치가 있을 것이다.

Genres: Japanese Literature

456 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 1985

About the author

Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.

Reviews

[Aya Miyazaki · Rating 3 out of 5]

世の中なんでこんなにも村上春樹好きが多いのか。それを理解したくて、いろいろ村上作品に挑戦してはいるものの、今回もやはり全く好きになれない。
内容が全く頭に入ってこない。
ふぅー。

[Seongyeon · Rating 5 out of 5]

“I believe you. I told you earlier, didn’t I? If you believe, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Memories of happiness, recollections of loving someone, moments of tears, childhood days, plans for the future, favorite music—whatever it is, it’s okay. As long as you keep thinking about those things, there’s nothing to fear.”

[Remi · Rating 4 out of 5]

女性キャラクターの書かれ方は気に入らないが、物語自体が面白いので読みすすめる

[Bel]

日本語が下手ので、遅く読んでいる。。。

[Sung-Gi Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

眠っているように見えた獣たちの何頭かは、同じ姿勢のまま凍りついて死んでいたのだ。そんな獣たちは死んだというよりはまるで何か重要な命題について深く考えこんでいるように見えた。しかし彼らにとっての答は存在しなかった。

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